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Good  News  from  Porto  Rico—  Civil  Government  in  the  Philippines  -Labor  Controversies 

—Philadelphia  Franchises  -South  African  War—  The  French  Association  Bill,  etc  .......  1457 

The  Pacification  of  Cuba  ............  Senator  Orville  H.  Platt  1465 

II  Bel  Canto  (Poem)   ................  ....  Bessie  Millet  1468 

The  Result  in  Cuba    ....   ..........   Albert  Gardner  Robinson  1469 

The  London  Loving  Cup  ..............     Powltney  Bigelow  1471 

Religious  Situation  in  East  Aurora  ...........  Elbert  Hubbard  1473 

Let  Love  be  Controlled   ................  Ida  Rusted  Harper  1477 

Miss  Van  Cortlandt's  Burglar  (Story)   ......  Elizabeth  G.  Jordan  1481 

A  Side  Light  on  Editors  ...........  Another  Literary  Aspirant  1485 

Organized  Labor  and  the  Trusts  .........  .  .  Samuel  Gompers  J487 

"Des  a  Li'I  Cabin  "  (Poem)  ..............  Frank  L.  Stanton  1488 

The  Geology  of  the  Soul  .......  •  .....  .  .......  Dicast  1489 

The  Manufacturers  and  the  Tariff  ....  Dr.  Ellis  Paxson  Oberholtzer  1491 

The  Quest  of  the  Orchis  (Poem)  ..............  R.  L.  Frost  1494 

Book  Reviews: 

Israel  and  the  Nations    East  London—  Max  Muller's  Autobiography  —The  "White  Cottage 

—A  Century  of  Baptist  Achievement—  A  Year  in  China,  1899-1900,  etc  .................  1  495 

Editorials  : 

President  Schurman's  Warning—  Reciprocity  or  Tariff  Revision—  The  Proposed  Episcopal 

Canons  of  Marriage—  Urbans  vs.  Pagans—  Fourth  of  July  Tetanus—  Our  Vacations,  etc  .....  1  503 

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THE   INDEPENDENT 


nesses  were  so  lusty  and  strong,  not  to 
act  hastily.  He  earnestly  beseeched  them 
to  give  all  the  various  industries  a  proper 
hearing,  and  it  was  through  his  influence 
and  that  of  other  members  who  are  iden- 
tified with  the  textile  interests  in  Phila- 
delphia that  the  resolutions  finally  passed 
by  the  body  were  more  conservative  than 
the  declarations  of  the  various  speakers 
might  lead  one  to  expect.  It  was  de- 
cided that  the  whole  matter  of  reciproc- 
ity should  be  referred  to  a  national  reci- 
procity convention  to  be  specially  assem- 
bled by  the  National  Association  of  Man- 
ufacturers in  Philadelphia.  To  this  meet- 
ing the  representatives  of  all  the  indus- 
tries will  be  invited  to  send  delegates, 
and  after  they  are  given  a  fair  hearing 
recommendations  will  be  framed  for  the 
guidance  of  the  next  Congress. 

The  convention  reflects  a  change  in  the 
sentiment  of  the  business  men  of  this 
country  which  has  been  coming  on  for  sev- 
eral years,  in  fact  ever  since  they  first  be- 
gan to  turn  their  thought  and  attention  to 
the  foreign  trade.  President  McKinley, 
whose  observation  no  shifting  in  the  cur- 
rent of  public  opinion  escapes,  has  for 
some  time  foreseen  this  movement  in 
popular  sentiment.  His  strong  and  tact- 
ful speeches  assure  us  that  the  welfare 
of  the  great  American  industries  is  un- 


der his  careful  scrutiny  and  that  he  is 
ready  to  second  the  efforts  of  the  manu- 
facturers to  hold  their  foreign  markets 
by  a  liberal  system  of  reciprocity. 

It  is  an  opportunity,  of  course,  for 
free  traders  to  declaim  very  gleefully 
about  a  change  of  faith.  One  of  the  hu- 
morists in  this  convention,  who  is  at  the 
same  time  one  of  its  most  useful  mem- 
bers, comically  declared  that  so  far  as  his 
own  industry  was  concerned,  cement 
manufacturing,  he  thought  it  would  re- 
quire protection  "  for  a  few  months  yet." 
He  wanted  to  know  whether  a  man 
could  not  change  his  opinion  in  the 
course  of  ten  years  if  the  conditions  and 
circumstances  which  originally  induced 
him  to  those  opinions  had  undergone 
modification.  The  representatives  of 
many  of  the  greatest  industries  in  this 
country  admitted  in  Detroit  that  they 
had  changed  their  views  regarding  an  im- 
portant economic  question.  They  had 
been  ardent  protectionists,  and  they  still 
believed  in  the  protective  principle.  They 
honored  the  tariff  for  what  it  had  done 
to  develop  the  resources  and  increase  the 
prosperity  of  the  country.  They  now 
wished  the  policy  modified,  in  order  that 
this  development  and  prosperity  should 
continue  without  diminution  or  loss. 

PHILADELPHIA,  PA. 


1FELT  the  chill  of  the  meadow  underfoot,  Then  at' last  and  following  that  I  found — 
But  the  sun  o'erhead;  In  the  very  hour 

And  snatches  of  verse  and  song  of  scenes  When  the  color  flushed  to  the  petals,  it  must 

like  this  have  been — 

I  sung  or  said.  The  far-sought  flower. 

I  skirted  the  margin  alders  for  miles. and  miles     ^,  ,  ,,  ,         .  ... 

In  a  sweeping  line;  There  sfto°d  the  PurPle  sPires'  Wlth  no  breath 

The   day   was   the   day  by  every   flower   that  aiQr  headiong  bee 

But  I  saw  no  sign  ^°  disturb  their  perfect  poise  the  livelong  day 

*  '^Jp^tli    tlif*    5i  1  r1pt"f~t*#*p  ! 

INCtllH      tllC     tllv_ld  LI  CC  . 

Yet  further  I  went  before  the  scythes  should 

come,  I  only  knelt  and,  putting  the  boughs  aside, 

For  the  grass  was  high ;  Looked,  or  at  most 

Till  I  saw  the  path  where  the  slender  fox  had  Counted  them  all  to  the  buds  in  the  copse's 
come  depth, 

And  gone  panting  by.  Pale  as  a  ghost. 

Then  I  arose  and  silent  wandered  home, 

And  I  for  one 

Said  that  the   fall  might  come  and  whirl  of 
leaves, 

For    summer    was    done. 
WEST  DERRY,  N.  H. 


LITERATURE. 


Israel  and  the  Nations.* 

IT  has  long  been  recognized  that  no 
nation  can  be  regarded  as  isolated.  Every 
nation  is  a  member  of  a  community,  and 
in  its  contact  with  its  neighbors  gives 
and  takes.  Israel  cannot  be  understood 
unless  its  environment  is  understood. 
The  background  of  its  history  is  found 
by  the  nationalities  which  stood  about  it 
at  greater  or  smaller  distances.  It  is, 
therefore,  a  merit  in  Professor  Mc- 
Curdy's  work  that  the  picture  of  the 
world  in  which  Israel  lived  is  sketched 
with  fullness.  For  that  purpose  he  gen- 
erally uses  the  latest  discoveries  in 
Egyptian,  Babylonian,  Assyrian  and  Hit- 
tite  history.  It  is  well  known  that  the 
researches  of  the  last  twenty  years  have 
transformed  early  Canaan  for  us :  the  pe- 
riod which  was  a  dreary  waste  has  been 
filled  with  interesting  persons  and  events. 
The  Amarna  letters  enable  us  to  see 
Canaan  as  it  was  two  hundred  years  be- 
fore the  Hebrew  conquest,  a  land  under 
Egyptian  governors,  but  employing  the 
Babylonian  tongue  as  the  language  of  of- 
ficial intercouse ;  and  these  letters  and  the 
cuneiform  monuments  indicate  a  Baby- 
lonian hegemony  or  suzerainty  reaching 
back  possibly  some  centuries.  We  now 
know  something  of  the  political  condi- 
tions that  made  the  conquest  of  Canaan 
by  the  Hebrew  tribes  possible.  After  a 
gap  of  centuries  the  cuneiform  inscrip- 
tions again  come,  in  the  ninth  century  B. 
C,  to  the  aid  of  the  historian  of  Israel, 
and  continue  till  the  capture  of  Babylon 
by  Cyrus  (539  B.  C.).  All  this  material 
Professor  McCurdy  weaves  skillfully 
into  his  narrative.  Further,  he  uses  the 
writings  of  the  Prophets  to  fill  the  gaps 
left  by  the  meager  accounts  of  the  biblical 
historical  books. 

In  describing  the  external  history  he 
does  not  confine  himself  to  a  bare  sum- 
mary of  incidents,  but  seeks  for  the  prin- 
ciples and  ideas  that  guided  the  progress 
of  the  nation.  To  the  religious  devel- 

*  HISTORY,  PROPHECY  AND  THE  MONUMENTS,  or  Israel 
and  the  Nations.  By  James  Frederick  McCu*dy,  Ph  />., 
LL.D.,  Professor  of  Oriental  Languages  in  University 
College,  Toronto.  New  York  :  The  Macmillan  Company. 
Three  volumes. 


opment  he  pays  special  attention,  tracing 
the  growth  of  higher  conceptions  from 
the  time  of  Moses  (about  1200  B.  C.,  as 
he  thinks)  to  the  end  of  the  exile;  in  this 
part  of  his  work  he  gives  sympathetic 
and  suggestive  studies  of  the  great  men, 
including  the  prophets,  who  mark  the 
epochs  of  Israelite  history;  his  charac- 
terizations of  David,  Elijah,  Amos, 
Isaiah,  Jeremiah  and  Ezekiel  may  be 
specially  mentioned.  After  briefly 
sketching  the  general  history  in  the  first 
volume,  he  returns,  in  the  second  vol- 
ume, to  an  extended  description  of  the 
social  life  during  the  earlier  period.  Be- 
ginning with  the  clan  as  the  fundamental 
political  unit,  he  treats  of  the  various  ele- 
ments of  society,  the  power  of  the  father, 
the  status  of  the  wife  and  of  children  and 
servants,  the  social  significance  of  slav- 
ery and  polygamy,  the  rise  of  classes,  the 
growth  of  an  aristocracy,  poor  laws,  the 
status  of  the  resident  alien,  and  similar 
topics.  In  this  investigation  he  follows 
the  principles  of  modern  sociological 
science.  In  the  same  way  he  examines 
the  ethical  history,  pointing  out  the  ac- 
tual moral  practice  of  the  people  as  well 
as  the  more  elevated  ideals  set  up  by  the 
leaders  of  thought.  While  he  recognizes  a 
natural  ethical  progress,  the  result  of 
better  organization  of  society,  he  insists 
on  the  influence  exerted  on  morals  by 
the  purer  religious  conceptions. 

Throughout  the  work  he  of  necessity 
has  regard  to  the  literary  activity  of  the 
nation.  Particularly  in  the  third  vol- 
ume, in  which  he  deals  with  Deuteronomy, 
he  gives  a  sketch  of  the  literature  from 
the  earliest  known  time  to  the  end  of  the 
seventh  century.  He  offers  evidence  to 
show  that  the  Hebrews  were  acquainted 
with  the  art  of  writing  before  the  days  of 
Moses,  and  very  early  shared  the  culture 
of  Canaan;  he  describes  the  earliest 
lyrics,  the  rise  of  prose  writing,  the  com- 
position of  the  Jehovistic  and  the  Elohis- 
tic  narratives,  the  literary  progress  from 
Amos  to  Deuteronomy.  His  portraitures 
of  Assurbanipal  (Sardanapalus),  Ne- 
buchadrezzar and  Cyrus  are  interesting, 
tho  he  is  probably  wrong  in  representing 

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